“I felt like I was flying, I went that high up in the air. I went up and then down. I think I counted twice that I spun and landed on all fours like a cat.” On train tracks.

A car went off a bridge in Wilmington and landed on train tracks.

She says she scrambled out of the car with someone’s help. She was evaluated at a local hospital, and amazingly, a quarter inch cut on her forehead seems to be her only injury.

Her life was likely saved by her seatbelt. “I was upside down at one point. I remember that, because that scared me so much. I’d wear my seatbelt if I was driving from here to the corner. It’s just something I do. And the officer said, ‘That saved your life.’”

McDermott says she isn’t sure what went wrong, only that before the crash, and a short time earlier during her drive, her car suddenly started pulling in one direction, out of her control.